Nexenta Announces Sponsorship of the Illumos Open Source Community
Backed by Community Partners and Leading OpenSolaris Programmers,
Illumos Will Replace Closed Portions of the OpenSolaris Distribution
with a 100 Percent Open Source Community Effort
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexenta
Systems, the world?s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions,
today announced its support of Illumos,
a new community-built and maintained version of the OpenSolaris code.
The goal of the Illumos community is to provide members with an open
forum to contribute and improve the OpenSolaris base code. Illumos
replaces the closed portions from the upstream code, and aims to closely
follow upstream releases - allowing continued independent development.
Illumos will be based on OS/Net, a consolidation of the core operating
system and networking components of OpenSolaris, with all the closed
source elements replaced with open source versions.
?With our announcement today, we believe that Illumos represents a
bright and open future for the technology and community that make up
OpenSolaris?
Nexenta?s OpenStorage solutions are based on OpenSolaris and the ZFS
file system, so the company has a vested interest in maintaining the
integrity and advancement of OpenSolaris. ?We are proud to support
Illumos and the effort it represents to increase the vitality and
openness of OpenSolaris,? said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. ?Illumos was
conceived by and for the community, and while we support those efforts
and will likely use the Illumos-based open kernel in the future, we do
not intend to act as a governing body. We look forward to working with
the community and to supporting its efforts to continue to build upon
and improve the foundation of OpenSolaris.?
Multiple community groups and interests have endorsed the Illumos
project. Distributions such as Nexenta, BeleniX and SchilliX will use
Illumos as the base for their distributions. Other community partners
include Joyent, Greenviolet, BeleniX, SchilliX, berliOS, and EveryCity.
Initial community leaders include Garrett D?Amore, senior Nexenta
engineer and former Sun and Oracle employee, and Bryan Cantrill, Joyent
vice president of engineering and co-creator of DTrace.
?With our announcement today, we believe that Illumos represents a
bright and open future for the technology and community that make up
OpenSolaris,? said Garrett D?Amore, senior director of engineering at
Nexenta. ?A number of critical hurdles, including the closed nature of
some of the code, but not limited to that, are removed. The response
from the community has been overwhelmingly positive, and I'm excited for
the things that were previously impossible that will now happen as a
result of this newfound freedom.?
For more information and to start contributing, visit http://www.illumos.org.
About Nexenta Systems
Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed
NexentaStor?, the leading OpenStorage enterprise class hardware
independent storage solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an open source
operating system that combines the high performance and reliability of
OpenSolaris with the ease-of-use and breadth of applications of Linux.
Both solutions leverage the revolutionary file system ZFS.
Nexenta?s products have achieved VMware Ready status with VMware, an EMC
company (NYSE:EMC), CitrixReady status with Citrix Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:CTXS), and other certifications.
More information about Nexenta Systems, Inc. and free trials of the
ZFS-based NexentaStor can be found at http://www.nexenta.com
or call (877) 862-7770.